08252008 - Ex's Criminal Case - Ex's threat to kill me / violation of PPO - 64D06-0808-CM-8254/Porter County Superior Court, Portage IN

I was on the phone with the ex, questioning him over the May 2008 property settlement [that was not to be entered until September 19th]. In an all too calm...yet don't screw with me voice, he replied, "You better stop talking to attorneys...You won't be on the face of the earth long enough..."

When I asked my ex what he meant by that he calmly continued, "You never know when you might get run over by a truck".

My ex drove a semi truck for Dunkin Donuts. At every court hearing over the past year, he had always driven his Dunkin Donuts semi truck [bobtail] to the courthouse. How long had he thought about killing me by running me over with his semi truck?

I was on my cell phone with my ex on the other end desribing his plans to end my life. And although I was in my car, I was about ten minutes away from the Portage PD. My thought was: keep the ex on the phone and let the PD hear his threats for themselves.

The big challenge was to keep my ex engaged on the phone as I sped to the PD. "Since you are kicking me out of the house without anything, I might as well sell your motorcycle and jet ski for some money," I ventured.

He went ballistic. He obviously hadn't thought about this....as he had with running me over with his semi truck. He was screaming uncontrollably at me. He was calling me every name in the book. Then he began threatening to do all kinds of things to me. My stomach was churning, but it was keeping him on the line as I got closer and closer to the PD.

And then in the middle of his rant, he suddenly became calmer....and again issued another death threat if I selled his beloved 'toys'. The solution seemed to appease him, because he began to laugh and said that if I went ahead and questioned the court order, that he simply wouldn't show up for the court hearing. "You tell the Judge that I'm not there because I went to a ball game," he laughed and then hung up...Before I got to the PD.

Criminal charges were filed on September 4th,  against my ex for his threat to kill me.

Jim had a history of violence and threats against not only me, but against with his first ex-wife. In September 2001, Chesteron PD was called when Jim threatened to kill his ex-wife when he didn't get his way during an argument.